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Heinecke says he can't agree to the clause because pizza isn't his only business. It wasn't even his first. Four years after moving to Thailand in 1963, Heinecke borrowed $1,200 from a loan shark to open an office-cleaning service and a public relations company. He made his first million before age 21. While pizza franchises were popping up all across America during the late '70s, he came to believe that if Thais were exposed to pizza, they would like it. "I operate on the belief that, fundamentally, we're all more similar than dissimilar...
...Mention Thailand, and images of coconut curries and spicy shrimp soup percolate in the mind. The country would seem an unlikely setting for a pizza war. But one of the bitterest battles in the global fast-food industry is shaping up in Thailand, and its outcome could determine not merely who dominates the pizza market in this country of 61 million but also the future of franchising agreements around Asia and beyond. "This isn't really about pizza," says William Heinecke, 51, the American-born multimillionaire franchise king and hotelier who is at the center of the conflict...
...February Ford recalls tires in Thailand and Malaysia; it persuades Firestone to launch a study of why the failure is occurring. First TV reports of tire failure in Houston...
Lance Kirley of Leverett, Mass., saw his first fire show in Thailand two years ago and just left a job restoring colonial homes to devote full time to poi (another name for the practice). "It's almost a religion for me," he says, citing "the rushy, on-edge feeling anything can happen at any moment." Last May something did happen: entertaining at a friend's graduation, Kirley accidentally set the lawn ablaze. Now he hopes to create juggling products using nonflammable chemicals found in glow sticks...
...seemed to go up and up together. But when the economic crises came (and divided they fell), political and civil rights were desperately missed by those whose economic means and lives were unusually battered. Democracy has become a central issue in these countries now: in South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand and elsewhere...